Simon Bessant is a Board Director and the Global Head of Insurance at The Texel Group. Texel, established over 25 years ago, is a privately owned and independent insurance broker specialising in the field of credit and political risk insurance and reinsurance. The firm is focused purely on arranging, structuring and negotiating unfunded credit protection to provide clients with credit and concentration risk mitigation, balance sheet and regulatory capital solutions.

Our company represents commercial, investment and multilateral banks as well as development financial institutions, using non-payment insurance to allow them to conservatively grow their lending book and mobilise private capital aligned to positive development outcomes.